Adult Coloring Pages

What's an Adult Coloring Book?

Introduction

At the time of
writing this article (August 2015), a quarter of Amazon's major twenty
best-selling books are coloring in books. So what exactly is an adult coloring book, and how is it that they're at present
outselling top fiction authors with new releases for example E.L. James and
Paula Hawkins?

Adult coloring books are, extremely merely, coloring in
books for grown ups. Like children's coloring books, they're full of outline
illustrations created to become filled in with colored pencils, markers,
crayons, or what ever other media you want to work with.

The principle difference involving adults' and
kids' colour books is the fact that the grown up versions frequently feature
much less juvenile pictures and designs. Alternatively of superheroes, barnyard
animals, and television characters, adult coloring in books are far more
frequently filled with:

elements of the organic planet, like trees,
flowers, leaves, gardens, animals and insects;

geometric designs;

psychedelic patterns;

repetitive 'wallpaper' variety patterns;

cities and buildings;

anatomical drawings;

goddesses,
angels, and mermaids;

mandalas; and

celtic designs.

There are also a lot of 'theme' precise books available, featuring
diverse subjects like cars, steampunk styles, and Art Nouveau patterns.

Why are they so well-known?

A Scottish illustrator named Johanna
Basford published a coloring book known as Secret Garden in 2013, featuring
pages of beautifully hand-illustrated ink drawings. The New York Instances
reported in March that a Korean pop star named Kim Ki-bum posted a photograph on
Instagram of a 'delicately colored-in floral pattern' from Secret Garden. At the
time, Ki-bum had a huge 1.8 million Instagram followers. The post went viral and
helped to ignite the craze.

The development in popularity from the books
reportedly has considerably to do with adult relaxation and pressure release.
Several adults who make use of the books report that they uncover the
repetitive, low-stress nature of coloring in to become soothing, relaxing, in
addition to a way of de-stressing away in the pressures of life and work.